Today's Trump quote...

[pbmus]

“There was overwhelming science that the earth was flat and there was an overwhelming science that we were the center of the world. We get a lot of things wrong in the scientific community."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/310440-trump-transition-team-member-on-climate-change-scientists-get-a

you cannot make this shit up

[whathehell]

1. OMG..

Unbelievable...Really.

[pbmus]

2. He speaks like one of his deplorables...

After Obama , what a complete embarrassment

[ReformedGOPer]

3. uh, yeah, back in the 16th century.

We have better technology now dumbasses.

[wcmagumba]

4. Not science...

it was religion...and seems that it will be again, welcome back 16th century...yipee!

[BSdetect]

5. This is lunacy - ant 10 year old could explain it to him.

[whathehell]

6. "Yeah, them flat-earthers got the science all wrong"

Wonder what this idiot did before he joined "the team"?

[JDC]

7. I promise this makes perfect sense to the Trumpanzees.

"yeah, that's right!"

He speaks like a "normal person". If that person is a complete idiot. Which is becoming more the norm by the day

[pbmus]

8. Welcome to DU..

[haele]

9. Gibbrish. The Earth is the physical world we inhabit as a species.

We don't live on any other worlds as of yet. So of course, the Earth is the center of "our world" - Philosophically as well as physically.

As for the other point - "Overwhelming" science, beginning from around the 3rd century BCE - and not just from Western Civilization sources, knew that 1) The world was ovoid (not quite round) and that 2) it was debatable whether or not the earth was the center of the universe, which is what I suspect is what is meant.

It was Religion that told us the earth was the center of the universe. Scientists, sailors, and farmers quietly continued to track the movement of the sun, planets and stars fully understanding - because of math - that everything in the sky other than the moon had a different orbital axis than the earth, so logically, the earth could not be the center of the universe.

As for the earth being flat - The "Flat Earth" theory was a 17th propaganda effort of various Protestants calling Catholics ignorant supposedly based on a metaphor used by St. Augustine when discussing the links between Hell and Earth. Washington Irving used the same theory in a short story about Christopher Columbus as a comic effect that has since become a supposed indicator of how brave he was ... when Columbus' own letters indicated he thought he was going to go all around the world and end up around what's now known as Indonesia.

Only ignorant literalists who first beheld a map believed that there was nothing beyond that map, and the world was flat.

But then again, that's redundant in comparison to the dTrumphs and his "cabinet".

Haele

[Tanuki]

10. His moronic voters fell for the "CIA got the WMDs wrong, so they're wrong about the Russians hacking

the election" crap, so he decided to try the same tactic again. I'll at least give him credit for knowing how stupid his followers are, even if he knows nothing else.

[onethatcares]

11. remember this

when you get close to the edge of the universe. always take a rope,a tent and a clean pair of socks.

[AC_Mem]

12. And then

They were proven to be wrong. Just like the climate deniers will, unfortunately for humanity, be proven to be wrong.

Jesus what are we gonna do... This is a catastrophe.

[Lucinda]

13. KNR